Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.

“Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.” is a core task performed by Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#13 most important). About 88% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Maintain sales or financial records. in Documenting/Recording Information
• Purchase goods or services. in Monitoring and Controlling Resources

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died. · importance 4.8
• Obtain information needed to complete legal documents, such as death certificates or burial permits. · importance 4.8
• Perform embalming duties, as necessary. · importance 4.8
• Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services. · importance 4.8
• Remove deceased remains from place of death. · importance 4.7
• Contact cemeteries to schedule the opening and closing of graves. · importance 4.7
• Plan, schedule, or coordinate funerals, burials, or cremations, arranging details such as floral delivery or the time and place of services. · importance 4.6
• Close caskets and lead funeral corteges to churches or burial sites. · importance 4.5
• Provide information on funeral service options, products, or merchandise, and maintain a casket display area. · importance 4.5
• Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends. · importance 4.5
• Direct preparations and shipment of bodies for out-of-state burial. · importance 4.3
• Discuss and negotiate prearranged funerals with clients. · importance 4.2
• Provide or arrange transportation between sites for the remains, mourners, pallbearers, clergy, or flowers. · importance 4.1
• Arrange for clergy members to perform needed services. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-3347}
}